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PHall | July 18, 2014
If you could have any super-power, what would you choose? Let me suggest an unusual one; that once a lesson is learned, you never forget it. Gone would be the days of parents asking, “How many times have I told you?!” The answer would be “Only once!” More importantly, we would never forget God’s lessons. […]
PHall | July 17, 2014
PHall | July 17, 2014
PHall | July 17, 2014
PHall | July 17, 2014
If the God of all comfort, comforts us so that we can comfort those in affliction (2 Cor.1.3-4); then God gives what He is, and we give what we receive.
PHall | July 17, 2014
We want to love people out of their hurt, but some hurt so deeply, it is stronger than any love. Any human love, that is. Consider, “For as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so through the Christ our comfort also overflows” (2 Cor.1:5). To “comfort” means to come along side of for the […]
PHall | July 16, 2014
One word to look for as you read and re-read 2 Corinthians is “heart.” Consider the following: 2 Corinthians 6:11 (HCSB) We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide. 2 Corinthians has the second most times Paul uses “heart” (18%). This is a letter following and encouraging change. It is […]
PHall | July 15, 2014
Good-hearted people sometimes suggest after a sermon, “The next time you preach that, you need to include….” Sometimes I do; sometimes I had already excluded it due to time restriction – could you really sit through a sermon that included everything the Bible says on every topic? There is, however, another reason not to include […]